Motivational Quotes

Courage

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

- Hazlitt, William

Best Quotes about Courage

If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

10.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

11.

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

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True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

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The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

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Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Mill, John Stuart

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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

17.

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

18.

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

20.

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

Bible

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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

23.

Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

24.

Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

25.

The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

28.

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

29.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

30.

Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

31.

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

34.

Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

35.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

39.

Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

40.

Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

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Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

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The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

45.

Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

46.

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

49.

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De